Discover the Truth About Jesus and the Secrets of Bible. M. M. Mangasarian

as Christianity?

      In the name of what other prophets have more people been burned at the stake than in the names of Jesus and Moses?

      What other revelation has given rise to so many sects, hostile and irreconcilable, as the Christian?

      Which religion has furnished as many effective texts for political oppression, polygamy, slavery, and the subjection of woman as the religion of Jesus and Paul?

      Is there,—has there ever been another creed which makes salvation dependent on belief,—thereby encouraging hypocrisy, and making honest inquiry a crime?

      To send a thief to heaven from the gallows because he believes, and an honest man to hell because he doubts, is that the virtue which is going to save the world?

      The claim that Jesus has saved the world is another myth.

      A pictorial Christ, then, has not done anything for humanity to deserve the tremendous expenditure of time, energy, love, and devotion, which has for two thousand years taxed the resources of civilization.

      The passing away of this imaginary savior will relieve the world of an unproductive investment.

      We conclude: Honesty, like charity, must begin at home. Unless we can tell the truth in our churches we will never tell the truth in our shops. Unless our teachers, the ministers of God, are honest, our insurance companies and corporations will have to be watched. Permit sham in your religious life, and the disease will spread to every member of the social body. If you may keep religion in the dark, and cry "hush," "hush," when people ask that it be brought out into the light, why may not politics or business cultivate a similar partiality for darkness? If the king cries, "rebel," when a citizen asks for justice, it is because he has heard the priest cry, "infidel," when a member of his church asked for evidence. Religious hypocrisy is the mother of all hypocrisies. Cure a man of that, and the human world will recover its health.

      Not so long ago, nearly everybody believed in the existence of a personal devil. People saw him, heard him, described him, danced with him, and claimed, besides, to have whipped him. Luther hurled his inkstand at him, and American women accused as witches were put to death in the name of the devil. Yet all this "evidence" has not saved the devil from passing out of existence. What has happened to the devil will happen to the gods. Man is the only real savior. If he is not a savior, there is no other.

1 Childhood of the World.—Edward Clodd.

2 Bygones Worth Remembering.—George Jacob Holyoake

3 Stories of Virgin Births. Reference: Lord Macartney. Voyage dans "interview de la Chine et en Tartarie." Vol. I, p. 48. See also Les Vierges Meres et les Naissance Miraculeuse. p. Saintyves. p. 19, etc.

4 Stories of Virgin Births. Reference: Lord Macartney. Voyage dans "interview de la Chine et en Tartarie." Vol. I, p. 48. See also Les Vierges Meres et les Naissance Miraculeuse. p. Saintyves. p. 19, etc.

5 Translated from the French of Didron. Quoted by Malvert.

6 Christianity and Mythology. J. M. Robertson, to whom the author acknowledges his indebtedness, for the difference between Paul's Jesus and that of the Gospels.

7 For a fuller discussion of the various "Christs" in mythology read Robertson's Christianity and Mythology and his Pagan Christs.

9 Rev. Frank Gunsaulus, of the Central Church, Chicago. See A New Catechism.—M. M. Mangasarian.